• To: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@a...>,"'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: RE: What is "the Web"
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:18:21 +0100
• Cc: <AndrewWatt2000@a...>,<michael.h.kay@n...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@a...] 
>
> That's simply not true.  The Web is the information space 
> comprising all things with identity, whose interaction 
> semantics are constrained to being generic to all things with 
> identity.

Quantum computation is coming round to the idea that information is
physical. I think you'd be hard to put to get your definition taken
seriously in that field.


> The Web does have a boundary.  It's just a very very VERY big
> one.  

By your definition, can you name something that isn?t on the web? 


> If you don't believe me, name something with identity, 
> anywhere in the universe, that cannot respond (directly or by 
> proxy) to a GET invocation.

By your definition, the only thing I can thing of is the Web
itself.

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